== How we collect and use your information ==
We collect and store personally identifiable information from you when you
use the Website, and when you participate in our sanctioned
SCRABBLE® activities. Stored information is kept on encrypted devicesin the United States and Canada, and is subject to the privacy laws of thosecountries.
You provide some Here is an overview of the life cycle of each kind of this information .In order to us explicitlycomply with privacy requirements in some countries, such as whenwe have tried to strike a balance between clarity and completeness.Please [[Contact|contact]] us if you update your member profile or make an online purchasewould like us to provide more of either.
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; Regarding your contact information in particular, whose use may be governedby other legislation:: If you have provided contact information, we may use it to contact you.You must provide contact information when you first become a member,so that we can confirm your membership status to you. You may delete this contact information, but if you do so you areresponsible for visiting the Website to learn of any changes to yourmembership, this Policy or any other NASPA policies.If you give us permission to include you in mass mailings, we will.If you have given us permission to provide it to others, we may do so. If you communicate with us, we will retain the communications to maintain our correspondence with you. When you provide billing information in the course of making a purchase,we will use it to facilitate the purchase, and we do not retain anymore information than we are legally or contractually required to retainin order to perform the transaction.In particular, we do not retain your billing address or credit card number. Our club and tournament directors may provide information about youfor statistical and rating purposes, such as your name, membernumber and playing record. Some information is gathered automatically, such as your IP address.We will use your IP address to maintain your account security. We use browser cookies to control access to member-only servicesat our web site, and our wiki software may also use them to keeptrack of your browsing preferences. If you do not want to keepidentifiable information in browser cookies, you may disable themin your browser, but this may also disable some features of ourWebsite. We use standard web server log files to track system activity andmaintain security. We do not share this information except asrequired by law.
== Use of the Website by children ==